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  • The entire US Social Security database was uploaded on a random cloud server, Whistle-Blower Says

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  • It could be why it's being done, because SSN are being used inappropriately. Potential leaks like this will force banks and other entities to begin making account access more difficult, and this will make it from difficult to next to impossible for a large number of seniors, those who've saved the most and have the biggest accounts, to access it. This would happen even if it was done in a two year controlled manner.

  • Donald Trump says people are in Epstein files who ‘don’t deserve to be’: ‘It’s a Democratic hoax’

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  • They've been manipulated and have allowed it to be made a part of their core identity - so yes, from sunk cost fallacy, to stockholm syndrome, to abusive relationship, to personality cult, to just plain ignorance and proud of it, profiled by Big Data and fed and cordoned off to their particular slaughterhouse of a social network bubble, they will be increasingly easy to manipulate the more distance there is between reality and their perception of it.

  • Masked ICE Agents Smash Car, Beat and Arrest Local Father Without Warrant in Connecticut: 'Another day in dystopian hell'

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  • Just find like-minded people, dress up like they do, don't identify yourself and wear a mask, and do whatever you want. It seems to work for them.

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    Reddit is using AI to determine users beliefs, values, stances and more based on their activity (posts and comments) summarizing it to Subreddit Mods.

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  • A black box you can't look inside making determinations that could affect your access to the entire site. How dystopian. It's also pretty clearly only useful for pruning users en masse and not have to bother with the responsibility a moderator should be subject to.

  • Chat Control is back & we've got two months to stop the EU CSAM scanning plans.

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  • It will pass eventually. Seeing the way EU countries are going, the right to far right will get voted in, and they will end up voting for these sort of bullshit measures they can Orwellianly exploit.

  • We hate AI because it's everything we hate

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  • It's corporate controlled, it's a way to manipulate our perception, it's all appearance no substance, it's an excuse to hide incompetence under an algorithm, it's cloud service orientated, it's output is highly unreliable yet hard to argue against to the uninformed. Seems about right.

  • American "left" and "liberal" can't decide if they're in the same nutshell.

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  • Because it shifts from country to country no matter the scales you use. You could put dots on whatever imaginary axis you choose, and they would be unidentifiable across countries - about the only thing it could identify are the people who don't have a clue about political environments elsewhere but think they do.

    Your definition isn't even correct, there are many "left" parties that want to concentrate power and even the most infamously "right" government of them all, that of the GQP in the US, have claimed things like wanting to "distribute" power from federal to state government. About the only universal single axial distinction between parties are those willing to operate and respect a system of governance, and those that only want to game it and change it to what they want, and even that is constantly shifting.

    Right now a lot of our governments are democracies being divided up into the people who want to continue to operate within them being increasingly outnumbered by the people being hoodwinked into transitioning and increasingly operating outside of them. But even that isn't left of right, and it is very dependent on the type of government it is being manifested in the first place - someone might want to play within the system in a high democracy high trust society yet would be willing to support those living in a dictatorship who work to game and change it.

    Left and right is highly psychological. Venezuela's dictator Maduro is placed in the "left" by those that like to criticize their own left parties, while Mile's is "right" while Bukele, who has close links to Milei and Maduro, is not identified by either, having called himself a "man of the left" while increasingly prospering within the "right". Why? Optics and psychology. "Left" and "right" is very easy to manipulate into a bipartisanship, and a bipartisanship can be worn down into an autocracy. The US is a prime example of this.

    A party can be identified by two things: the ideology they say they will represent, of which things like "left"/"right" is the vaguest yet safest thing they can claim and easiest thing to divide society on, and what they actually can and will do, and to define either of these, you need far more labels than different ends of an axis. But people think the creation of the universe is detailed in a pocket book called the Bible, so it's no surprise they think "left" and "right" is sufficient connotation.

  • Far-right populists top polls in Germany, France and Britain for the first time

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  • Not really surprising, social networks are dividing people up and rather than recognize it, people on all political isles are following up with more barriers, essentially demolishing the need for an objective truth for democracies to work in. Social networks as of now are social slaughterhouses designed to lull in people like cattle and turn enough of them into pawns for those with pockets.

    You identify issues that certain groups will crowd around divisively, you foster them into ridiculously zealotry, and you break them up into small bubbles you can politically manipulate. Take Reddit - before they used to think they would have more power by focusing on centralized communities that got legitimacy from rigorous contributions, now they are perfectly ok with each community being taken up by whatever brigade is interested in them and whereas communities like T_D were banned before, now they are actively encouraged for each international, localized domain of users.

  • 'I need a big thing!' Trump said to be considering major betrayal as Epstein distraction

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  • It's just another show for him.

  • American "left" and "liberal" can't decide if they're in the same nutshell.

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  • I'd certainly guillotine anyone who thought that a 200 year old reference merited relevance and was anything other than proof at how bullshit out of touch the labels are. Then again, people being as ignorant as they were 200 years ago seems on cue.

  • Meta appoints anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor

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  • Facebook has really taken the mask off, like X, and societies seem to care so little it might be time for them to get the Old Yeller treatment. I remember the old Deus Ex games, and some of the themes are so irrelevant nowadays simply because they have stopped being dystopian fiction.

  • American "left" and "liberal" can't decide if they're in the same nutshell.

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  • It's almost like left and right are bullshit labels, sort of like conservative obviously was to MAGA after Trump was voted in.

  • Can’t pay, won’t pay: impoverished streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy

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  • Please, threaten me with more exclusives. Please, put more excerpts for shows to promote your network exclusives, and see what I do.

  • Should Jon Stewart Run for President in 2028? The Movement Is Growing — and It’s No Longer a Joke

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  • What's a joke is thinking you are going to get there when you haven't even seen what's going to happen during the midterms, or that there is still over a year to get to even that.

  • OpenAI will not disclose GPT-5’s energy use. It could be higher than past models

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  • When you want to create the shiniest honeypot, you need high power consumption.

  • Ghislaine Maxwell cleared to leave prison on work release: report

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  • If the maxwellhill account suddenly becomes active again by someone other than a guy replying in PMs who admits to be a lawyer every time people point at it and VICE suddenly begins releasing articles about how she has been reformed into an asset for this administration, this will be some dark comedy hilarious type shit.

  • GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

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  • Monopolies becoming more of a monopolies while the US is weaponized to protect them.

  • Techcrunch reports that AI coding tools have "very negative" gross margins. In other words, they are losing money on every user.

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  • In other words, they want to hook up users and companies, make them dependent, and then rise up the prices severely while finding ways to process and incorporate all of the data they've gathered in ways that will probably involve automating the jobs of the users themselves.

  • JD Vance is visiting Indiana. He wants Indiana to redraw maps before midterms to help Republicans keep control of Congress

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  • They want this only because it's the most legitimate form of undoing democracy. They have other cards they can and will resort to if the traditional gerrymandering does not work out. They don't have to worry about a January 6th being reprimanded anymore.